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busiest. week. ever.

  • May. 6th, 2006 at 11:27 PM
cali: (transmet: going to hell)
I djed last Sunday night at the local hipster night and then again on Thursday night at a different place (put on by the same crew of kids) all last-minute-notice-like because they needed someone to fill in and I was all, huh, a chance to play Marvin Gaye and AC/DC Snoop Dogg and Prince back to back (to back to back) sure! In between the dj sets I was filling in answering phones at my dad's office all week starting at 8:30 in the morning (which, dude, is so not in keeping with my normal lazy college student hours that it's not even funny.) Plus I took park in the march/rally/protest thing on the 1st and I was copwatching at last night's Cinco de Mayo celebration, which went really well this year (as opposed to last year when the cops came out in riot gear and tear gas and basically escalated a primarily peaceful situation into a violent one.)

And then school on top of that. Which, okay, I totally want to punch one of my teachers in the face. He always makes these vast generalizations and pronouncements about things and people and makes horrifically uncomfortable politically incorrect jokes about things like how none of us would be here if our parents hadn't been drunk and about how it's not that bad that Freud was a misogynist bastard because women don't even like each other so why should Freud? and then he giggles at his 'jokes' in this obnoxious high-pitched tone while the rest of the class is cringing and going 'oh my god I want to stick a spork in my eye, no wait I want to stick a spork in your eye' and it's just so. so bad. I totally hate him. I have taken satisfaction in completely unnerving him for two classes in a row by just sitting there with a terribly unamused look on my face the entire class period and holding eye contact with him the whole time. I totally freaked him out on Thursday. It was awesome.

Unrelated to that, but referring back to the copwatch thing. This woman at the cinco de mayo event tried to give me a flier about her church and I took it not knowing what it was so then I handed it back to her and said something along the lines of, "I'm going to save you the flier because I'm not really interested and I'm never going to believe in it." At which point she launched into a whole 'I want to convert you and probably suck your blood, too' thing. It was very awkward. Our conversation went thusly:

Her: I used to think that too but then God got in touch with me.
Me: (trying to be polite and failing, so, so miserably) Well, when God gets in touch with me I guess I'll change my mind; but, you know until then, if you want to believe in it that's okay with me.
Her: Well you shouldn't say never because God has a plan for us all and if you're not doing his purpose then you're never going to be whole and you can walk around thinking you're doing the right thing but until you're fulfilling God's Plans For You, you're just not.
Me: helpless laughter and pleading looks to my friends for rescue
Her: There's an emptiness inside all of us that only God can fill you know. And it can't be filled by anything else, so you'll never really be whole until you embrace God.
Me: nearly falling over laughing.
My friend (finally): can you please go away? You're kind of freaking my friend over here out a bit.

It was literally a ten minute conversation which consisted entirely of her trying to convince me of how empty, empty, EMPTY I am and me laughing without end until my friend rescued me. Ten Minutes! OMG. I totally have no response to people proseltyzing to me about religion except to laugh in their faces. And it''s SO RUDE but I just. There is no logical response in me. I cannot do anything but LAUGH. And then feel mildly guilty for laughing. But then I just keep giggling. I was in hysterics by the end of it. It was terrible. But I am just SUCH an athiest it's not even funny. Like it just does not compute for me at all how I would even go about starting to believe in God. And you know? I totally get that other people believe in it and as long as they're not trying to convert me or force their beliefs on other people it's totally cool with me. But I think too many people use religion as the reason to do Good Things For Others instead of just realizing that all people should treat each other right because that's what we all deserve. And you know, GREAT I am SO GLAD you're able to pat yourself on the back for feeding homeless people food on Christmas and Easter but I do it every week regardless of the holiday because it needs to get done and not because Jesus told us to be kind to each other and we only get reminded about it on religious holidays.

Um. And not that that surprise rant is over, on to things that people other than me might actually want to read about: I'd like to remind anyone who has friended me recently that I have a media filter on which I share things exciting things like tv shows (and on which I refrain from possibly offensive religious commentary) and if you're not on it and would like to be please leave a comment here.

PS: where are all the Supernatural mood themes man? I totally want one.

Comments

[identity profile] luzdeestrellas.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2006 01:10 pm (UTC)
Dude, you rock so very, very much. House! and BSG I haven't seen. Plus VMars, which I've been meaning to watch for ages, but it's only on here on some obscure channel we don't have. Really, you're fabulous. *g*